I have.
Bloody hell that's an incredible film.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:18, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

if you ignore the fact that the ending made no sense

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:19, Reply)

that was the only bit that let it down.
But the rest of it I loved.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:20, Reply)

I just like movies is all.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:20, Reply)

fairy snuff
I will restrain my vitriol and you are a girly and likely have boobies, but that ending was a killer for me, and I seem to remember there were problems with the main film too, but I can't remember what they were, probably that it was trying too hard to be all allegorical an shit. I've seen worse films over all, but i'd not recommend it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:24, Reply)

Ha. I do love how my boobies save me.
I can't watch the Alien or Predator movies though. They scare the living daylights out of me. Always have.
(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:25, Reply)

it's not logical
it's not like I'll ever see them, or likely even want to, but I have a harder time shouting at someone who has them, so there you go, enjoy your unearned power.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

For me, the ending was also bleak
there was no evidence that the boat was the one they thought it was, nor that even if she got on with her kid they'd ever be able to fix the human race. It was just a glimmer of faint, hopeless hope in a dying world.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:26, Reply)

there was nothing wrong with it
I like films with ambiguous endings.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:27, Reply)

You're an ambiguous ending.

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

:D

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:34, Reply)

it wasn't ambiguous it was meaningless
and not in an arty, No Country for Old Men, we-did-it-on-purpose way, in a shit we-don't-have-brains-to-do-sci-fi-properly way
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:30, Reply)

what would you have had happen?
she gets on the boat, everybody smiles and hugs, they sail off to France for cheap booze and fags and some epilogue text appears on screen to tell us all how her magic fanny saved the world. howzat?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:37, Reply)

you really don't know me do you?
OK, hands up and apologies I'm being a cunt coz I'm tired.

How would I have ended it? Everyone dies.

Which to be honest is what I recon happens anyway. it's the idea that somehow one random pregnant bind could possibly save the world as it was in that film that I find insulting above all, it works if you view her as some sort of symbolic Eve figure, but scientifically it's toss.

That's my 2p apologies for being insulting about it, you seem a decent bloke.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:44, Reply)

I think that's what the ending was, though
they got out, but there was no real sense that everything was going to be perfect for humanity now
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:45, Reply)

it's not that I think there was any sense of stuff being perfect
but as I recall, and this was a while back when it came out, there was some feeling that there was meant to be some kind of hope. But there wasn't, there couldn't be, in fact I think I realised that really early on and that may be what spoiled the film for me.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:48, Reply)

oh, I just felt like there wasn't meant to be real hope
long term. I felt the whole film was about hopelessness and how humans will still have a crack at trying to survive even if there is no chance
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:50, Reply)

I might try re-watching it one day with that in mind
but I doubt I'll change my mind, I'm pretty harsh on these things
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 11 Jul 2011, 23:52, Reply)